[OSGeo-UK] How to use OS data? Missing OS GIS

[Saber]

Matthew

Ogr2ogr now truncates the attribute headers for shapefile when exceed 10
letters.
Cheers
Saber


> Guys,
>
> I know some time ago I was trying the ogr2ogr but ended up hitting a brick
> wall in the case where SHP's dbf reached its limit. Does this tool split
> the
> SHPs into small numbers? Since OS data is quite big, such a feature would
> surely be helpful.
>
> Good job on the util ;)
>
> Matthew
>
>
> Matthew Pulis BSc. (Business and Computing) MSc. (Informatics)
> web:   www.matthewpulis.info
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>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Saber Razmjooei
> <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk
>> wrote:
>
>> Matt
>>
>> Excellent. No, your code was clear and well-licensed :)
>> We will try to add MasterMap styling for qgis plus export to PostGIS and
>> other ogr format in near future, which is mostly qgis stuff.
>>
>> There are already plugins for exporting/importing QGIS styling to
>> Mapserver .. maybe we can do it once for both Mapserver and QGIS?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Saber
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 21:57 +0100, Matt Walker wrote:
>> > Nice work Saber, just tried it with the Topographic Layer sample from
>> > the OS website on our home laptop (Ubuntu 9.10, Quantum GIS 1.5.0,
>> > GDAL/OGR 1.7.2 all defaults from packages) and it worked a treat :-).
>> > I've put a note on the project page and I'll mention it to the OS.
>> >
>> > Is there anything you need to change or would like to see improved?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Matt.
>> >
>> > On 13 April 2011 13:42, Saber Razmjooei <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk>
>> > wrote:
>> >         Matt
>> >
>> >         We have taken your code and ported it as QGIS plugin.
>> >         Here is the link to the repo. At the moment it's shapefile but
>> >         future
>> >         changes will support other formats.
>> >
>> >         http://moses.faunalia.co.uk/qgis/plugins/plugins.xml
>> >
>> >         Cheers
>> >         Saber
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >         On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 09:54 +0100, Matt Walker wrote:
>> >         > Hi Guys,
>> >         >
>> >         > At Astun we've been working with OS data for years with Open
>> >         Software.
>> >         > We've recently signed up as Developer Partners which allows
>> >         access to
>> >         > data for development, testing and demonstration and also
>> >         joined the
>> >         > Insight program which allows early access to new products.
>> >         I'd be
>> >         > happy to pass on details to anyone that's interested.
>> >         >
>> >         > I agree that we should look to get the open software we know
>> >         is
>> >         > compatible on the list and I'm happy to find out what's
>> >         required.
>> >         >
>> >         > On a related note we've recently pulled together a simple OS
>> >         MasterMap
>> >         > loader which is a thin Python wrapper around OGR 1.8. The
>> >         source is
>> >         > available at https://github.com/AstunTechnology/osmmloader.
>> >         It's only
>> >         > designed to load an initial supply at present but we will
>> >         possibly
>> >         > look at adding CoU support in future. Jo Cook has been
>> >         working on a
>> >         > MapServer map file to style the output which we'll put up
>> >         with the
>> >         > source shortly. Some highlights include:  it uses ogr2ogr
>> >         which meeans
>> >         > that you can write to all destination formats supported by
>> >         OGR by
>> >         > providing ogr2ogr command line options; it reads GML or GZ
>> >         natively
>> >         > and it's open software :-)
>> >         >
>> >         > Thanks,
>> >         >
>> >         > Matt.
>> >         >
>> >         > On 6 Apr 2011 17:19, "Barry Rowlingson"
>> >         <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
>> >         > wrote:
>> >         > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Joanne Cook
>> >         > <j.cook at thehumanjourney.net> wrote:
>> >         > >> Perhaps we should find out who to contact and offer to
>> >         update it
>> >         > for them?
>> >         > >
>> >         > > There's a customer services contact:
>> >         > >
>> >         > > "For general enquiries, complaints, feedback or
>> >         suggestions, email:
>> >         > > customerservices at ordnancesurvey.co.uk or call us on 08456
>> >         05 05 05"
>> >         > >
>> >         > > I think we need someone to enquire for a sample of test
>> >         data sets,
>> >         > > and what the OS consider as 'supports' in the table. Just
>> >         loading it
>> >         > > without errors might not be enough.
>> >         > >
>> >         > > It might also be worth suggesting they add a GDAL/OGR row
>> >         which
>> >         > would
>> >         > > cover most Open-source GIS and lots of proprietary ones
>> >         too.
>> >         > >
>> >         > > Barry
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>> >
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>> > Matt Walker
>> > @_walkermatt
>> >
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